Word: masking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a creature named Dr. Freeland moved through Maryland wearing a white mask acutely reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan. But not one of the 40,000 people who were watching him, not Vice President Curtis, who once rode horses, nor Mrs. Gann, who had a good seat, nor Maryland's Governor Ritchie, nor Will Rogers, whose pocket was picked of four mutuel tickets, thought of the Klan as they watched what Dr. Freeland was about. They were all interested in seeing what horse would win the famed Preakness horse-race. Dr. Freeland, who is a big fast...
...insult is added to injury by the honeyed information that on the Thursday before the Yale game the team will run through signals before the public eye. It is but a hollow victory when one's champion upon the field of battle loses all human interest behind a mask of secret practice...
...great formal dinners with people he didn't know and who obviously didn't know him. A round-faced, bespectacled man, shorter than the large Mrs. Gann, the Vice President's brother-in-law sidled into inconspicuous drawing-room corner, spoke when spoken to, wore a mask of polite pleasure...
...Iron Mask-One for all and all for Douglas Fairbanks...
...foils team, was captured by the Navy, in spite of the vigorous efforts of the Yale team to repeat their last year's victory in this division. The Midshipmen will also receive a new trophy, the gift of which was made public today, consisting of crossed blades and a mask on a pedstal. In the individual contests, Captain F. S. Righeimer of Yale, though closely pressed by D. I. Modell '30 of Harvard, distinguished himself as victor in both foils and epee. The individual sabre title was won by Frederick Giddings of the Army...